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Open Forum => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Soundman2 on March 16, 2012, 09:48:38 PM

Title: Your ISP is watching you.
Post by: Soundman2 on March 16, 2012, 09:48:38 PM

This may go some where bad..
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-1/?tag=mncol;topStories

Just getting the word out.

Title: Re: Your ISP is watching you.
Post by: lp670sv on March 16, 2012, 09:54:50 PM

This isn't really all that new, a friend of mine received a cease and desist order from Time Warner when they caught him torrenting, and they trottled my upload speed several times when I was running a web server out of my house because lots of upload data is usually a dead give away for torrenting.

Title: Re: Your ISP is watching you.
Post by: Soundman2 on March 16, 2012, 10:05:36 PM

New or not everybody should know. Like I said this could get bad fast.

Title: Re: Your ISP is watching you.
Post by: Chronic Apathy on March 16, 2012, 10:14:17 PM

Not really. All they're doing is monitoring bandwidth. This is something colleges have been doing for years now, and it sounds like they have a pretty good system set up. I'm all for pirating, but if this is the way it dies, I'm okay with it.

Title: Re: Your ISP is watching you.
Post by: lp670sv on March 16, 2012, 10:19:04 PM

This will not kill pirating, it will only kill the casual pirater. It doesn't take much to know to throttle your own upload speed to hide the torrents.